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Laura White, Rookie 2015. Plastic, chamois leather, wooden kitchen utensils
and mixed media. 142 x 115 x 62cm.
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Laura White, tenderfoot, webproject 2016- ongoing
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Laura White, Selected Sculptures
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Laura White
Selected Work
Biography/Exhibitions
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White’s expanded sculptural practice explores materials and objects with their inherent and contingent qualities. Reaching across multiple formal platforms the work takes place in stable forms and ephemeral gradations. White’s practice is a discursive negotiation of STUFF, involving performative interactions and reflections of process, tilting into the everyday and the politics of making.
“Research is an integral part of Laura’s practice, where she continually explores what it means to handle/come up against stuff, material and objects, thinking about how we use our hands, how a skill is acquired, the relationship between materials, hand and cognition, and the rich experience of understanding through direct hands on engagement.” She has been doing this through a number of different skill-based courses such as butchery, fish knife skills, sushi making, baking, bread making, glass blowing and blacksmithing.
White’s online platform Tenderfoot contains recordings of acquiring said skills, applying them in group settings and observes materials in day-to-day production and as a base for conversational discourse. It is this expansion into a collective engagement with production which position White’s sculptural explorations interestingly between the Art + Context philosophies of Nineties Conceptualism and the politics of production and consumption in the here and now. The openness to allow contextual contingency into personal intuitive processes makes Laura White’s approach to sculpture intriguing.
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Laura White (b. 1968) grew up in Worcestershire, UK. She lives and works in London and has a studio at the Cubitt Studios community in Islington. Recent exhibitions include: Gallery Cadaqués, Spain, & Model, Leeds, Spacex, Exeter, Marlborough Contemporary London, The Wall House #2 Groningham Netherlands, Kling&Bang Reykjavik Iceland and Galleri Box in Göteborg Sweden.
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